Walter Simmons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHEIJKLMENOPQR ST| My parents thought that I would be | A |
| As great as Edison or greater | B |
| For as a boy I made balloons | C |
| And wondrous kites and toys with clocks | D |
| And little engines with tracks to run on | E |
| And telephones of cans and thread | F |
| I played the cornet and painted pictures | G |
| Modeled in clay and took the part | H |
| Of the villain in the Octoroon | E |
| But then at twenty one I married | I |
| And had to live and so to live | J |
| I learned the trade of making watches | K |
| And kept the jewelry store on the square | L |
| Thinking thinking thinking thinking | M |
| Not of business but of the engine | E |
| I studied the calculus to build | N |
| And all Spoon River watched and waited | O |
| To see it work but it never worked | P |
| And a few kind souls believed my genius | Q |
| Was somehow hampered by the store | R |
| It wasn't true The truth was this | S |
| I didn't have the brains | T |
Edgar Lee Masters
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